mattwnz: I have never seen a cat attack a big bird like a tui or wood pigeon, and they also tend to stay in the trees. It is mainly sparrows they they seem to get, which are essentially rats with wings.

Our cat over the course of a year has caught 3 seagulls, and they are pretty quick birds.

Although seagulls do spend a lot for their time on the ground as they are rats with wings, so doesn't surprise me. I don't live near seagulls myself. But I am sure that a seagull could give many cats a good peck to get them off.

LittleGold: Unruly cats are often like unruly children. If you follow them home you'll find the problem is their inept owners/parents.

But you can't train a cat

But you can train a cat. I have taught mine to do all sorts of things, and even knows some commands. But then again it is a burmese which are very much like dogs in the way they act and intelligence. Never could train the old moggy we used to have.

To make sure this just cause succeeds all ISP's in NZ should also implement cat filters so that the native minds of NZ children are no longer subjected to devastating effects of prolonged 'lol cat' exposure.

This will benefit all of NZ, it will reduce international traffic, latency and of course mean that we no longer need to clean the filters on our routers daily to remove hair balls.

Sadly this reduction in traffic may mean that less people require UFB speeds and the investment in FTTP could be seen as frivolous.

ajobbins:Many parts of Australia also have by-laws requiring cats be kept inside at night.

Do cats kill more at night than during the day? I would have thought that unlikely because most birds are less on the move at night. Do cats grab birds out of their nests? Perhaps the Aussies want cats inside at night as the easiest way of restricting cats' outdoor activity - easier than keeping them inside during the day.

ajobbins:Many parts of Australia also have by-laws requiring cats be kept inside at night.

Do cats kill more at night than during the day? I would have thought that unlikely because most birds are less on the move at night. Do cats grab birds out of their nests? Perhaps the Aussies want cats inside at night as the easiest way of restricting cats' outdoor activity - easier than keeping them inside during the day.

"The urban environment can be a dangerous place for cats at night. For example they can be run over, attacked by dogs, tormented by humans, injured in cat fights and pick up nasty diseases. Cats also present a significant threat to local wildlife."

It's not saying they kill more at night vs. day, and it's probably more the combination of reasons above that they have to be indoors at night, rather than just threat to wildlife.